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Between Osaka and Kobe

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Tsukaguchi Sun Sun Theater

4.5

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyougo Pref. Amagasakishi Minamitsukaguchichou 2-1-1-103

"This movie theater in front of in Hankyu Tsukaguchi Station in Minamitsukaguchi-cho, Amagasaki City has been operating for over 60 years. They screen the latest blockbusters, independent films, and classic revivals. Bring the kids along to the first screening on Thursday mornings for ""Moms' Theater."" You'll find the facilities, including the toilets, family friendly."

大衆むけの映画がおおかったのですが、最近はミニシアター系もやってくれるので、見に行っています。アキカウリスマキ監督の作品をみにいきました。
East Rokko Observatory

4.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyougo Pref. Nishinomiyashi Koshimizu Shakegouyama Inside the driveway

An observatory located close to the Hoden Gate and the Ashiya Gate on the Royu Driveway. A part of Setonaikai National Park, the observatory has been selected for inclusion in a list of Japan's 100 most beautiful night views due to the splendor of the city lights and starry sky visible from its location 645 meters above sea level. Used to film scenes for television dramas, visitors are also encouraged to enjoy a sunrise or sunset from the observatory. The observatory's most attractive feature is its expansive panoramic view which encompasses Osaka International Airport, Kansai International Airport, Awaji Island, Tomogashima Island, and the western Kansai region. A cafe operates at the observatory on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays and offers takeout. Visitors can also pick up tourism pamphlets here.

Mt. Rokkō offers great views of two regional cities- Kobe and Osaka. This particular overlook shows you views of Osaka from afar, and includes a map indicating where you are and at what elevation...
Sakagura Dori Rengakan

4.0

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyougo Pref. Nishinomiyashi Yougaichou 4-28

This facility is a 15-minute walk from the JR Kobe Line's Nishinomiya Station on historic Sakagura-dori Street. Visitors can join in tastings of freshly brewed unprocessed sake and dine on seasonal Japanese fare. The restaurant serves full-fledged kaiseki banquet cuisine featuring seasonal ingredients and is also available for parties and banquets. The facility has a specialty shop and a glassware studio too, with items that are available nowhere else. The glassware studio holds hands-on workshops like glassblowing and sandblasting that the staff help make an experience to remember.

西宮駅から徒歩で10分の場所に立地。他の酒蔵資料館とは違い此方はレストランや販売コーナー、ガラス工房やイベントホール等がある日本盛直営の複合商業施設。販売コーナーでは日本酒以外にも酒の肴や日本盛グッズも販売されていた。
Chikamatsu Memorial Museum

4.0

12 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyogo Amagasaki-shi Kukuchi 1-4-38

"Located in Chikamatsu Park adjacent to Kosaiji Temple, where Chikamatsu was buried, this museum exhibits about 100 items related to Chikamatsu, including his favorite writing desk, past books, a wooden statue of Kyuemon Shomotoya, and a ""Myoken-do Omikuji,"" which is said to have been written by Chikamatsu himself. A special panel exhibition introducing anecdotes about Chikamatsu and volunteer guides are also available."

阪急塚口駅から南東方向にありますが、ちょっと距離があります。スマホ片手に道を探しながら歩きました。近松公園には、近松門左衛門の座像があり、その横に記念館があります。使っていた文机、過去帳などの遺品が多く展示されています。周辺は回遊式の庭園ですので、散歩するのもよいと思います。またお隣の広済寺は近松が建立に力を注ぎ、近松の墓も境内にあります。
TOLI Itami Hall (Itami Cultural Hall)

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Itami-shi Miyanomae 1-1-3

This cultural hall is located in 1 Chome Miyanomae, Itami City. The six-floor facility has a large hall that can hold approximately 1,200 people, plus a midsize hall and multiple conference rooms, Japanese-style rooms, practice rooms and multipurpose spaces. It can be used for a variety of events, including large-scale performances of music and drama, mini-concerts, traditional crafts and comedy.
amado

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Amagasaki-shi Doicho 7-1

This shopping mall is located in 7-chome Doi-cho, Amagasaki City. It has stores including car goods stores, home improvement centers, sports equipment stores, supermarkets, 100-yen shops and furniture stores, and also restaurants, sports clubs and other establishments. In addition, events such as live events and lotteries are held in the event square and special venue area.
Agape Ohtsuru Museum

4.0

9 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Nishinomiya-shi Kabutoyamacho 53-4

This art museum is located a 13-minute drive from JR Sakura Shukugawa Station. The museum, which features a blue and green tile exterior inspired by the architecture of the famous Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi, exhibits a collection with a focus on ivory carving. The centerpiece of the museum's collection of around 500 works of ivory carving is the ivory sculpture of Himeji Castle displayed on the first floor of the museum. Measuring 250 centimeters wide, 150 centimeters long, and 190 centimeters tall, and weighing 155 kilograms, it is the world's largest ivory carving. The sculpture faithfully recreates Himeji Castle in 1:50 scale using lavish amounts of fine ivory.

11月に甲山近辺を散策した時に立ち寄りました。甲山墓園の近くアガペ甲山病院に隣接した美術館です。館内には象牙細工が沢山ありました。その多さにビックリです。日光東照宮の模型も素晴らしかった。ゆっくり時間をかけて見学したい美術館です。
Nature Spa Takarazuka

3.5

11 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Hyogo Takarazuka-shi Yumoto Cho 9-33

Located about a 3-minute walk from Hankyu Takarazuka Station, this hot spring complex offers two types of hot springs: Kinposen, which contains a large amount of iron and keeps the water cool, and Ginposen, which is clear and has a high level of iron content. In addition to the hot springs, there is a spa pool, fitness center, bedrock bath, body care, and esthetic salons.

駅から近くて安藤忠雄設計の建物はオシャレ。女性専用の温水プール（ジャグジー等）があり、男性より少し高く1040円（2019年11月時点）。温泉も有馬温泉のように金泉・銀泉があり、金泉は浸透するそうで効果がありそう。確かに昼間に利用したのに夜まで暑いくらいポカポカでした。ただ、設備やサービスを考えると1000円は高いかな。地元のおばあちゃん常連さんが多かったです。
Horie Orgel Museum

4.0

9 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Pref. Nishinomiyashi Kurakuenyombanchou 7-1

Located in Kurakuen, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, this museum opened in 1993. The facility contains about 360 music boxes, mechanical instruments, and other items on display collected and donated by Mitsuo Horie during his lifetime. Most were collected in Europe and America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and there are also some precious items, such as a cylindrical music box beloved by Nicholas II of Russia. Reservations are required for entry. Three tours of about an hour each are offered daily, allowing visitors to learn about the history of music boxes and enjoy their wonderful tunes.

アクセスはあまり良くないがよく調べていくこと。団体しか入れない日もあるので。季節の良い時期がいい。バスも阪急やJR芦屋からもある。演奏時刻も３回。
Mondo Yakujin Tokoji Temple

Travel / Tourism

Hyougo Pref. Nishinomiyashi Mondonishimachi 2-26

This Buddhist temple is about 10 minutes by taxi from Hankyu Nishinomiya Kitaguchi Station. One of Japan's three Yakujin temples, it enshrines Yakujin Myoo, who is said to ward off all misfortune. Features besides the front gate which was completely destroyed by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and then rebuilt include an inner tower gate and the Yakujindo sub-shrine. Besides Yakujin Myoo, the temple also honors Fudo Myoo, Aizen Myoo, Daikokuten, the principal object of worship Yakushi Ruriko Nyorai, and Kukai, later known as Kobo Daishi, the founder of Shingon sect of Buddhism. The spacious precincts feature an area with sand from each of the stops on Shikoku's 88 Temple Pilgrimage along with representations of their principle objects of worship, giving you a chance to replicate the pilgrimage with ease.
Shukugawa Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyougo Pref. Nishinomiyashi Oidechou · Aioi Town etc.

This green park stretches for nearly four kilometers along the Shukugawa River in Nishinomiya City. 1,000 cherry trees were planted there in 1949, and it's been selected as one of Japan's Top 100 Cherry Blossom Viewing Sites. Various events are held during the Nishinomiya Sakura Matsuri Festival, held every April when the trees are in bloom. Outside of cherry blossom season, there are other flowers like Japanese irises, lotuses, and roses that visitors enjoy in season.
Shozenji Temple

3.0

7 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyougo Pref. Ashiyashi Kamimiyagawachou 10-12

A Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha Buddhist temple located next to Kamimiyagawa Park a four-minute walk from Ashiya Station. The temple has Japanese and Western-style conference rooms and a hall capable of accommodating 150 and the conference rooms can be used for club activities and rented for meetings. The temple can also provide lodging. In addition, there is a funeral home facility which can accommodate family and small-scale funerals as well as larger funerals of up to 100 guests. The temple's chief priest is also active as a singer and has appeared on television.

静かなたたずまいが素敵な場所です。まわりも落ち着いていて、風情がありいいですね。ちょっと寄ってみると素敵。
Tsukiji Ebisuyu

4.0

1 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Hyogo Amagasaki-shi Tsukiji 2-2-20

The bathhouse is located just south of the Amagasaki PA and can be seen on the left hand side as soon as you turn west from the Tsukijihonmachi 1 intersection. The men's and women's baths change daily and include an open-air bath, sauna, esthetic bath, etc. The rest area also offers udon and soba noodles, soft-serve ice cream, and other snacks.

阪神尼崎駅から南に徒歩15分ほど。住宅街の中にある温泉銭湯。単純温泉が内湯と露天にかけ流しされています。ロビーでビールや軽く食事もとれます。入浴料430円。
Tawara Museum of Art

4.0

5 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Ashiya-shi Tsukiwakacho 6-1

"This art museum is located in Tsukiwaka-cho, Ashiya City. The museum's collection of Edo period arts and crafts primarily consists of ""yatate"" portable writing implements. The museum displays some 150 yatate from its collection of around 1,500 at any given time. Museum exhibits also include sword guards and other sword fittings, netsuke sash toggles, tobacco containers, and all 55 prints in the Hoeido edition of Hiroshige's ""The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido."""

芦屋川駅から徒歩5分くらいの場所にあります。江戸時代の矢立(筆入れ)をコレクションする美術館です。七宝や蒔絵などで装飾された矢立も含めて様々な矢立が約150点展示されています。日本唯一の矢立の美術館です。また、矢立以外にも、根付、煙草入、髪油壺などの江戸時代の美術工芸品が多数展示されています。
Amagasaki City Agricultural Park

3.5

5 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyougo Pref. Amagasakishi Tanou 5-12-1

This park is in 5 Chome, Tano, Amagasaki City. Besides their seasonal flower garden area with sunflowers, cosmos, and rape blossoms, there's a rose garden, a peony garden, an iris field, and a hydrangea planting. In spring 20 varieties of cherry come into bloom including Yaebeni weeping cherry trees. Local farmers sell their vegetables at the park's Rotary Square.

尼崎市農業公園は、猪名寺駅から徒歩20分くらいのところにある大きな農業公園です。5月中旬に行ったところ沢山のばらが咲き乱れていました。大輪、房咲、つるバラなどいろいろな種類のバラが100種類3000本あるとのことです。美しい花を楽しむことができます。これからのシーズンは紫外線対策も必要です。
Koshienhama Seaside Park

4.0

4 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Nishinomiya-shi Koshienhama 1

"This seaside park has a theme of ""encounters between people and the ocean."" The park was developed in and around Koshienhama Beach, one of the few places in the Hanshinkan that retains an untouched natural setting. The park is divided into four areas. The Imazuhama Area features a large slide and a free multipurpose square. The Hama Area features outdoor exercise equipment and a free multipurpose square. At the Oki Area, park-goers can enjoy playing on the beach and in the water. It also features a surfer spot and a barbecuing space. The Furusato Kaigan Area, meanwhile, features a natural sand beach and tidal flats. Park-goers can freely move between the areas as suits their needs."

広い公園です。ビーチもなかなか素晴らしく、甲羅干しをしている人もいました。都市近郊のピクニックスポットとして、風光明媚で落ち着いた場所でした。
Suehiro Central Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyougo Pref. Takaradukashi Suehirochou

A park located in Suehiro-cho, Takarazuka City. Park facilities include a playground and a fountain children can play in. The park is also prepared for emergencies, and has an emergency supply storehouse and shelter, earthquake resistant water tank, and firebreak forest. There's also a stage with solar panels which charge batteries.
Tessai Museum

4.5

3 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Takarazuka-shi Maitani Sei Shi 1 Kiyoshikojin Seichoji Yamauchi

The museum is located in the precincts of Seiarajinji Temple, a 15-minute walk from Hankyu Seiarajin Station. 2000 pieces of Tessai Tomioka's masterpieces from his later years are in the collection, including paintings, calligraphy, vessels on which he painted, and handmade ceramics. The museum has been closed since November 26, 2008, for the purpose of reorganizing the collection.

富岡鉄斎の作品を貯蔵している清荒神清澄寺の聖光殿では、鉄斎の旅をつづった展示を開催していました。貴重な品は一見の価値がありました。
Tsukaguchi Sun Sun Town

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Amagasaki-shi Minamitsukaguchicho 2-1-2-201

This complex facility is located approximately a two-minute walk from the Hanyu Kobe Line's Tsukaguchi Station south exit. It is divided into the Ichibankan (Building 1) and Nibankan (Building 2). Ichibankan runs from basement level two to the sixth floor, and Nibankan runs from basement level two to the fourth floor. Besides public facilities such as the Hankyu Tsukaguchi Service Center and a community hall, there are also many restaurants. There are also stores that offer women's clothing and household goods. Other main features of the facility include the ample amounts of services relevant to daily life such as the movie theater Tsukaguchi Sun Sun Theater, travel agencies and classrooms.
Hirabayashi Hall Nishinomiya Nogakudo

5.0

2 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Nishinomiya-shi Naruo 3-6-20

「能」は大成した14世紀から一度も滅ぶことのない世界最古の演劇です。この西宮能楽堂は、近代的な建物の中に、日本の伝統的な手法で作られた総檜造りの「能楽舞台」があります。また館内にはプロジェクターが装備され、作品の台詞や様々な言語に対応しております。演劇だけでなく、能面や衣装、舞台に上がって所作の体験なども事前に申し込めば可能です。

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Hyogo Areas

Hyogo prefecture stretches from the north coast to the south coast on the western end of the popular Kansai region, encompassing verdant mountains, urban beaches, and fantastic historical sights. The prefecture’s main attractions lie along the south coast at Kobe, the prefectural capital, a pretty harbor city best known for its production of the renowned Kobe beef, and Himeji, the home of Himeji Castle, one of the country’s most beautifully preserved feudal castles, perched magically atop a hill.